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Who are these people? Where are they from?

Who are these people? Where are they from?. What assumptions do we make about them?. Where do you think she is from? What religion is she?. Mahinur Ozdemir: First Belgium MP to don the Hijab. Where do you think she is from? How would you describe her?.

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Who are these people? Where are they from?

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  1. Who are these people? Where are they from? What assumptions do we make about them?

  2. Where do you think she is from? What religion is she? Mahinur Ozdemir: First Belgium MP to don the Hijab Where do you think she is from? How would you describe her? Jemaima Tiatia – A NZ born Pacific Islander Karlo Mila, poet, born of Tongan, Palagi and Samoan descent.

  3. “I am a Samoan – but not a SamoanTo my aiga in Samoa, I am a palagi [foreigner]I am a New Zealander – but not a New ZealanderTo New Zealanders, I am a bloody coconut, at worst,A Pacific Islander, at best,To my Samoan parents, I am their child.”1

  4. This verse encapsulates the paradox of identity for many New Zealand-born Samoans. In Samoan communities they are not ‘Samoan enough’; they are ‘fiapalagi’ (wanting to be like a European). In the wider New Zealand community Samoans have been taunted as ‘not New Zealanders’, ‘coconuts’, or ‘FOBs’ (fresh off the boat). These see-sawing perceptions may end for some in a secure self-identity, but for others in a state of confusion.

  5. Jemaima Tiatia and Suresa Gavet Many young Samoans face a conflict between the strict traditional values of respect for elders and church and their more liberal New Zealand experience. In Caught between cultures: a New Zealand-born Pacific Island perspective (1988) Jemaima Tiatia, a 24-year-old Auckland university student, wrote of this conflict after talking to 20 New Zealand-born Pacific Islanders. Here she shares a joke with her grandmother, Suresa Gavet.

  6. Why do Pacific Islanders come to New Zealand? • Where did they come from? • Where did they settle? • Click on these sites to check out the answers. • http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/samoans/2 • http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/tongans/1 • http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/south-pacific-peoples/2

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